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Candidates to court Boulder County Republicans in Longmont

By John Fryar

Times-Call staff writer

Posted:
03/28/2014 07:53:24 PM MDT

Updated:
03/28/2014 07:55:36 PM MDT

Backers of the GOP rivals seeking spots on the Republicans' June 24 primary ballots for several of the federal and state government offices up for election this year will be soliciting support for their candidates in Longmont on Saturday.

Info: County assembly participants, chosen in the party's March 4 caucuses, will have the opportunity to nominate GOP candidates for the Boulder County government offices and the Colorado Legislature's House District 10, 11 and 12 seats up for election this year. Participants also will pick delegates to attend their party's April 11 congressional district, state Senate District 16, state House District 13 and state House District 33 assemblies at the Omni-Interlocken Hotel in Broomfield, and Republicans' April 12 state assembly at the University of Colorado Coors Events Center in Boulder.

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That's when more than 300 Boulder County Republicans will gather at Longmont's Best Western Plaza Events Center to choose the delegates who'll be attending their party's April 11 congressional assemblies in Broomfield and the GOP's April 12 state assembly in Boulder.

People attending Saturday's Boulder County Republican Assembly who become delegates to next month's congressional district and state assemblies will — along with their counterparts from other counties in their particular congressional districts and the rest of the state — get to vote at those April assemblies on which candidates they want advanced to the primary election ballots.

Some Republican office-seekers are bypassing the party's assembly candidate-nomination process and have been collecting petition signatures to get their names on GOP voters' June primary election ballots.

For example: former congressmen Tom Tancredo of Lakewood and Bob Beauprez of Lafayette, along with LaSalle-area rancher Roni Bell Sylvester, are going the petition route in their bids for the governor's office.

Tancredo, Beauprez and Sylvester, however, may still have fans at Saturday's Boulder County Republican Assembly, along with supporters of the other GOP gubernatorial hopefuls who are following the traditional route of trying to get to the primary ballot through the assembly-nomination process.

That includes such Republican candidates for governor as state Sen. Greg Brophy of Wray, Secretary of State Scott Gessler, Brighton businessman Steve House and former Colorado Senate Minority Leader Mike Kopp of Golden.

Some of the federal and statewide office-seekers are expected to put in personal appearances at the event and are to be given up to three minutes each to pitch their candidacies.

As of late this week, county GOP officials said they'd been told that among those expected to visit the Longmont gathering were: U.S. Senate candidate Cory Gardner, 4th Congressional District candidate Ken Buck, 2nd Congressional District candidate George Leing and gubernatorial candidate Gessler.

Other candidates may send surrogates to speak on their behalf, although those speakers will get only 1 ½ minutes each to make their candidates' case for delegates' support.

Delegates at Saturday's event will also have the chance to nominate GOP candidates for Boulder County government offices up for election this year: the District 3 county commissioner's seat, county sheriff, county coroner, county treasurer, county clerk, county assessor and county surveyor.

County assembly delegates living in the Colorado Legislature's House Districts 10, 11 and 12 can nominate candidates for those seats.

As of Friday afternoon, no Republicans had yet filed affidavits with the secretary of state to declare they're running for any of those Boulder County or state legislative offices. But GOP county assembly participants could name candidates willing to challenge the ticket of Democrats seeking election or reelection to those posts.

Among the current intra-party Republican rivalries for the opportunity to be the GOP's general-election candidate for several of the offices up for election this year:

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